Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How Much Does Sheetz Charge For A White Owl Cigar




As every year, Christmas becomes around here and find me rather half-hearted ... Like the other day I was saying to eulez , I think that Christmas would be celebrated every two years, thus would take many more like it.
Nevertheless, some small details of the holiday routine also enclose small pleasures associated with gluttony as nougat (which should be eaten in moderation, but in small amounts is good) or the wonderful ham (courtesy of the parents of blue little shit) we gobbled by these parts in coming Christmas, or even the promise of roast lamb at home waiting for me when I come back for Christmas ... In addition, this year I have had pre-Christmas visit , which I liked (Madrid touring like myself out cool me ... It's weird, I know but it will be because I'm not really here. ..).

This year may seem to many to be ignorant, but our mayor has received a bucket of cold water when she went to ask for spare change to the Minister of economy, so the inevitable consequence of all this is that the Christmas lights (including others) has seen enough mermadilla ...

again repeat agataruizdelapradero tree logo on the Sun, so I will not repeat some pictures last year, if not, is too repetitive. Among other things, is like the Plaza de Chueca (which, incidentally, has one of the few truly handmade Christmas markets and that does not directly embarrassment), the Gran Via , which celebrates its 100 years in splendor, and the luminous threads Preciados. Among the notable changes: UFOs from the Plaza Mayor this year are little ones and colors and blinked eyes that look a lot less alone street Hortaleza in Tirso de Molina last year ...

For my reluctance and repetition, I have not so hard in the photo essay this year, although I managed to capture some pictures, which although not Christmas, well worth the trip.





Valga this post also to congratulate Christmas and I wish you the 2011 out great! And do not you touch a Santa Claus like this (yeah, yeah, I've copied eulez , what happens? But I told him before he was going to get!):



Thursday, December 16, 2010

Had Lumps My Lip Ring

Christmas Stamps Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!


I warn my dear copepod that of Google are celebrating in style the birthday of one of the great ones and one of the universal rights of the owner eyes and mistress of this humble abode .

235 years ago on a day like today, Jane Austen was born, the youngest daughter of the family of seven children of Reverend George Austen, who lived in Steventon, near Canterbury. The rest of his biography is well known and you can see in the piles of pages that talk about it, but start to make a quick and impromptu tribute (suggested by Don Eulez , who always encouraged me to write things without much pomp and ... And that preparation was thinking lately to talk about some of his characters in an upcoming post ...), only add that Jane Austen and her characters fiction in general are an inspiration to anyone who likes good literature. Those who stay in the romantic dimension of his literary style manners are wrong, as there are few novelists who are so good with both physiognomic and critical eye and a sense of humor as caustic, but we never lose respect and affection that every good writer has to his characters ...


is because of his pen have been some of the great characters that have managed to jump off the pages and prolong its existence beyond them ... Google portrays two of the greats: Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet great , heroin is probably the most wonderful of all the history of literature ...

Well, I said! All to read Jane Austen!

Recommended Reading that I just happen suddenly,
Pride and Prejudice de Alba Editorial with Marta Salis translation (which was a finalist Esther Benítez translation)

Jane Austen of Carol Shields, an interesting biography.



PS: And as I write this, my Jane Austen miniature, accompanied by C3PO the interpreter, gives me a quizzical look from one corner of my desk ...